«Дар освобождения», курс 14 «Красота учителя», занятие 6

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Good morning. So it's Monday. I don't know, I was in the corporation for almost 20 years.

I hate Monday. Then, we just started the retreat, okay? And you're going to get tired.

You're not used to sitting all day on the ground. Your knees will get tired. And piku, piku will also get tired.

Your bottom. So, you have to take care of yourself, okay? Try to get enough sleep.

And eat. You know, they give me a plate of food.

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I pick out the good food, which is healthy for me.

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So, eat well. Do your yoga.

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And stay warm, because we have to be strong this week to reach this class, to hear this teaching, to do these meditations. You have waited thousands of years, and millions of seeds are necessary to come here.

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Many people wouldn't want to sit here. Most people. And the ones who want to come here, many of them couldn't come.

So, you are very lucky. So, use every minute. Okay?

We don't know if we can do this again. We don't know what will happen in the future. So, if you feel a little bit tired or sore, just be a tough guy, or a tough girl.

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Stay strong. I always think about how Bodhidharma brought Buddhism to China.

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I don't know.

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He walked for three years.

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He fell into many rivers.

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Many people robbed him, beat him.

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You just got on an airplane. You're upset because you had to change in Houston. So, we're pretty lucky.

And be a, what do you call it? Be tough. And focus.

Think, I have to teach this to my student. And you might not hear it again. So, you have to get it straight.

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Okay?

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The story about the two cooks. You have to remember all those things.

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You have to remember all these stories.

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All right, here we go. More stories. ,DE PHYIR KHYAD BU DANG PA SOGS KYIS ZAD CAN, Are we there, Adam?

,DE PHYIR KHYAD BU DANG PA, You can search for S-K-Y-E-S. S-K-Y-E-S Maybe put a B-U after that. Are we good?

Good? Okay. ,DE PHYIR KHYAD BU DANG PA SOGS KYIS ZAD CAN, ,DGE MI RGYAS KYANG, ,DI LA RAG LAS, Whether or not you're teaching mission in your life, how many people come to your talk?

It depends on how well did you serve the mission of your own teacher. Those of you studying Tibetan, there's a nice word here called ZAD CAN.

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ZAD CAN. CAN.

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CAN is short for CAN LAS.

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CAN LAS.

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Here it's PRIN, right? But it's pronounced CAN. If you want to learn some Tibetan, Nick is editing, I think 200 small videos on YouTube.

I think we finished about 10. And you can start. It starts from the beginning.

Okay. ,DGE MI RGYAS KYANG, ,DI LA RAG LAS, ,BYA YUL BA GZHON DU, ,GYIS BYEN NGA'A BA TSUL BZHIN RTEN, ,GZHABS ZHUGS TSUL BZHIN GRUB PA'I NYAN CIG, ,KHAS NYID PHOS SAR CHUN KHAB, ,KHAS DANG GSUM PA'I KHAR LAS PA NA, ,CHU RGYUN GYI STING NGE BRTZUN TSUL, Then he told the story about a Lama named BYA YUL BA, BYA YUL BA. His monk name was ZHON DU'U, ZHON DU'U.

ZHON DU'U And his teacher's name was CHEN NGA'A BA, CHEN NGA'A BA. Those are like place names, like Mr. Jalisco or something like that. His personal name was TSUL KHRIMS BAR, TSUL KHRIMS BAR.

Then this student was very, he did all the work for his Lama. All the dirty work, right?

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Cleaning, cooking, buying groceries, doing registration for the retreat.

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All the jobs nobody wants to do. Then he did a good job. ZHABS ZHUGS TSUL KHRIMS GRUB means he did a good job.

NYIN GCIG And then one day, KHYAD NYID, if you're studying Tibetan, KHYAD NYID means garbage, the garbage. He's taking out the garbage. Then, SKAD DANG means that he had to step down to get out of the house and go take out the garbage.

GSUM PA'I KHAR LAS PA NA means when he reached the third step, he got CHUGS RGYUN GYI RTIN GYIN ZIN. CHUGS RGYUN GYI RTIN GYIN ZIN is a special kind of realization.

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Every Dharma teaching you ever heard for thousands of years, it comes in your mind.

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Like that. Then you can remember. So, you don't have to take notes, I guess.

Just take out the garbage. Suddenly, it's so funny to stay on the third step.

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It's very funny to think that it was on the third step.

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Everything he remembered. You can reach this if you meditate a lot. I think it's part of Jorlam's second path.

Okay. So, if you meditate and serve your teacher. You can have this experience.

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Then everything you do, like even if you're cooking dinner, or you're cleaning the pot of sticky rice on the bottom, all these teachings start to pour into your mind, which you heard before. Okay.

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SA SPAN GYI RJE CHEN DRAG PA RGYAL TSE NA Then we talked about Sakya Pandita. He lived about 800 years ago. Then his teacher's name was Drapa Gyaltsen.

Then that's part of Sakya tradition. This is one of the four great traditions of Tibet in West China. Then in the Sakya tradition, the name of the teacher was Drapa Gyaltsen.

The nephew becomes the holder of the lama's throne. That's where the word nepotism comes from. Nepo means nephew.

So, LAM MED NYON BYUNG RTZON PAR ZHUGS PA NA He was trying to learn to serve his teacher. But his teacher complained to him. KHYOD KYI SNGA LA KHU BA'I DU SHES LAS You just think of me as your uncle.

LAM MED DU SHES MI SKYES But you're not thinking of me as a lama. LAM MED NYON BYUNG MA RDZAS LA So you're not serving your lama. You're helping out your uncle.

CI DRAG YIN MYON DKA'B Later on in their life, the uncle, the lama, got some serious illness. SA SPEN GYI NYON YOL LAS PAR BYED Then the Sakya Pandita nursed him very well. And then suddenly he was serving his lama.

DE CHIN CHE KHO'I DU SHES MED PAR Then he forgot this is my uncle. And he only thought of him as his lama. SANGS RGYAS NGOS KYI DU SHES BSKYED PAS And then suddenly he realized, suddenly he saw this person as a Buddha.

Then he became very famous in we call RIG NAS SNGA Say RIG. RIG NAS SNGA RIG NAS SNGA RIG NAS SNGA These are the five great subjects of knowledge in ancient Tibet, ancient India, ancient China. These are the five great subjects of knowledge.

You want to know what they are? First one is called NANGS RGYAS RIG PA which means the inner knowledge which is Buddhism. The second one is called BSTAN GZIGS RIG PA BSTAN GZIGS RIG PA means logic, reasoning.

Third one is called SO BA RIG PA SO BA means medicine. Fourth one is called DRA RIG PA DRA in Sanskrit the word is SHAB DA which means what? Sound.

It means sound. But this is the Sanskrit word for Sanskrit. Sanskrit in Sanskrit is called the sound.

It means Sanskrit. So the fourth science is to study Sanskrit. The third one is SO RIG The fifth one is SO RIG Those people who studied the alphabet in the videos, these are two different sounds.

Say SO SO SO SO SO SO SO RIG means medicine, number three. SO RIG SO RIG means the fine arts like sculpture, painting, architecture. Music, business, commerce.

These are all number five, part of number five. If you master those five, we can call you Pandita. Pandita is an old Sanskrit word for master.

It came into English as Pandit. In Mongolia, they changed Sanskrit. They use a lot of Sanskrit in Mongolia.

Mongolian Buddhists are very good at Sanskrit. They call Bandido. Bandido.

Okay. Then he's going to tell about another lama. CI CHEN BSTAN PA RAB GYAS KYANG CI CHEN means throne holder.

He was a holder of the abbot's throne of a monastery called Radrig. This is one of the first great monasteries in Tibet, in West China. This is where Atisha and his student Drom Tung Je taught there.

Somebody went there 300 years later and had an acid trip. And he saw all of the lamas of Lam Rim and they told him to write a book. Who was that?

Yeah, Je Tsongkapa who founded our tradition. He made this design and everything. Then he wrote the greatest book in Tibet, which is what?

Lam Rim Chenmo. So in the 1800s, the holder of that monastery, the head of the monastery was called Tenpa Rab Gye. Very famous scholar.

Tenpa Rab Gye. His teacher got sick one day. They don't say which teacher.

I checked, he had five great teachers. The most famous is called Yeshe Gyaltsen. He's also called Yongsen.

Yongsen means teacher of the Dalai Lama. So every generation they choose the best monk, best scholar and he will teach the Dalai Lama. So my teacher's teacher was the teacher of the Dalai Lama, Yongsen.

He was Yongsen. So his teacher, I believe it was Yeshe Gyaltsen, got sick. DE LA THUG MNGAL KYI RANG YONG DE DRAB BYED Then this disciple, he worked very hard to serve his Lama and because of that service, he got exhausted, he got sick himself and he almost died.

And then because of the power of that service, LTA BA THUG means he understood emptiness. It's not clear directly or not, it didn't say. Then there is a text He tells a story about another Lama.

This Lama's name is Puchok. His monk's name is Ngawang Champa. He lived in the 1700s and he was the Yongsen of the 8th Dalai Lama.

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He was the teacher of the 8th Dalai Lama.

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And he's famous for writing the baby logic books that you study in the monastery when you are about 12 years old. Then logic seems boring. When I say logic, I hate to say logic because everyone looks bored by logic.

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But really logic means how does your mind work? How do you make decisions?

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Even when you decide to eat pancake or oatmeal. Or should I go to the yoga class or should I go to the Latino dance class?

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Your mind is using logic.

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Every moment, every second your mind is using logic.

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If you understand logic, you understand the mind.

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And you also understand language because language is a direct reflection of logic. So it's the first thing you learn in the monastery. When you are 12 years old, 13 years old, you start logic.

And we study logic every year for three months in the winter. So 25 years. Those books are unbelievable.

They are like an acid trip also. I'm dying to teach that to somebody. Then someday, if some serious people want to learn that, I would love to teach it.

It's unbelievable. It's a whole other planet. Let's see.

Okay. One day I went to Varanasi. I was living in Varanasi.

I was studying Sanskrit there. There was one temple. I used to go every morning to meditate.

It was built under a huge boulder. Pabong. In the middle of the city.

Very close to the river. Then you actually have to crawl under downstairs. You have to crawl downstairs and you have to crawl under this boulder.

It's kind of frightening. It's dark and it's frightening. I used to go there every morning to meditate.

There's like some few butter lamps and there are some crazy yogis there. Then one day I started talking to one of them.

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I said, you know, do you sit here all day?

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He said, no, no, I'm like you. I just come in the morning. Then I said, what do you do during the daytime?

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He said, I'm an accountant.

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I have a big accounting business. Then I'm like, you're an accountant in Varanasi?

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Then he got upset.

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He said, I don't live in Varanasi. I live in Kashi. Kashi is the old Indian name for Varanasi.

It's the older name for Varanasi. I live in Kashi. Kashi is a separate planet.

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When you came here from the airport, the airport's not in Kashi. Then when the bus comes to the city, you cross the border of the city. Then you're in another planet whose name is Kashi.

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So, logic is like that. I can take you there. It's a ten year trip.

But it needs a serious person. You have to be really serious. I didn't find anybody yet who's serious enough.

nyin chik je druk kangpa Then his teacher's name was Druk Kangpa. His monk's name is Gyalak Yatso. Then he was bringing his teacher a big bag of chiwa.

chiwa means yak's poop. Poop of a yak. Then if you went to India or you went to Tibet, you can see when the big bowl, or they call it mahe, the big bowl or the yak, when they poopoo, there's a big bowl where those animals people will grab it very fast.

Then they go like this, like they are making tortilla. Then they go, on the wall they go, Then the sun will dry the poopoo. Then that makes a great breakfast fire for your breakfast.

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They are heavy.

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They are pretty heavy. So this disciple was dragging a bag of chiwa. Then he was like almost ready to die.

He's sweating. He cannot pick it up. He's just dragging it.

You are easy. You just have to bring propane. Then there was a table there in his teacher's room and there was a kapali.

A kapali is a special cup. You make from a skull. You have to cut this part after the person die, okay?

And you keep it there. Then they keep a special liquid inside there. If you ever went to a monastery, you saw it.

What they put in there is a long story. But usually there have been flies sitting on it for two months or something.

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It smells really strong.

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It smells pretty bad. Then he's all tired and he cannot carry all the poopoo. And the lama said, here, take a sip of this.

Then suddenly he's like Superman. After that he got a lot of what do you call? Understanding.

Very high understanding. Especially he got ngenjung. Say ngenjung.

What's ngenjung? Ngenjung means renunciation. What's it mean renunciation?

You shouldn't eat ice cream? You can't go to a Mexican wedding? Churro is prohibited.

That's not meaning of renunciation.

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Renunciation means in this world people are working whole life and every day they wake up. Go to make money. Buy a car, buy a house.

Have family. Even while they are doing it they understand they will lose it. If you ask anybody, can you keep this car?

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No, one day ... they say in Tibet there's a joke, either the car will break or you will die. Then there's a joke in the monastery.

They say, then the poor car will have to look for a new owner. Then you ask anybody, will you lose this house? Yes, maybe I will lose the house.

Maybe it will burn down. Maybe I will die. Who knows?

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You ask anybody, will you lose this house? Yes, maybe I will lose it. Maybe I will die.

Maybe the house will burn down. It doesn't mean you shouldn't enjoy your house. It doesn't mean you can't have churro.

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Or yo chow or pon chik. You should enjoy those things. You should enjoy your life.

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Play music.

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Especially loud rock and roll. And you should go surfing in San Diego. You should do all those.

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You should enjoy your life. While you enjoy your life, you should meditate and do yoga and study the Dharma.

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To stop death. For yourself and other people. But I think if people are too serious, I don't eat pon chik.

I don't eat churro.

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No ice cream. I have renunciation.

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Then I think those people's meditation is not very good. It's not open. It's not like the sky.

It's not like that. It's very narrow. Tight.

You should sing. You should dance.

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You should eat good food.

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And meditate hard. And do god damn good yoga. And that's renunciation.

It's not like this thing. Not like that. This one just gets tighter and tighter.

So at that moment he got renunciation. Real renunciation.

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Joyful renunciation.

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Happy to kill death. We call it kaladanda. It's like F-U to death.

Again, but joyfully, happily. With gusto.

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Con gusto.

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Okay. DE PHYIR Therefore, SA LAM GYI RTOG PA YANG DE LA BRTEN NA PHAL BYED TE Therefore, if you have a close relationship to a teacher, your realizations will explode. LAM RIM BDU TZIN GNYIS PO LAS He's quoting again that short LAM RIM called The Essence of Nectar.

SA LAM NYAM RTOG MU LA SKYE ZHING PHAL Once you find a teacher and start to be close to them, then immediately your mind starts to expand. Okay. We reached benefit number six.

Enjoy them. There are eight of them. Enjoy them.

Later we get to the problems that will happen to you if you break your relationship with your teacher. Those are extremely depressing. So enjoy the benefits while we are doing them.

DROG PA TSE RAB THAMS CAD DU SKYE BA'I GZHAN YIN GYIS MI PHUNG PA NI If you have a good relationship with a teacher, it continues after you die. So most of the things you have in this life and most of the things you are will die when you die. But if you have a good relationship with a teacher, death doesn't affect it much.

It will continue for many, many lifetimes. And finally you will reach enlightenment with them. Some of my students made a new publishing company.

Then we were trying to get a name for the ... they asked me, can we have a name for the publishing company? So I said, yeah, okay, Diamond Wisdom Book Company, something.

Then they tried to get the internet address, what do you call it? The domain, they tried to get the domain. Geshe-la, somebody owns Diamond Wisdom already.

Okay, name it Blue Diamond Press or something. Forget it Geshe-la, it's the bluediamond.com.org.gov All are gone, you know. We did this for like three weeks.

Then I was sleeping, I had an idea. Standing on the sky, press.

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Then they checked, nobody has that one.

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Then what's it mean, standing on the sky? If you have a teacher, good relationship with the teacher.

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If you have a teacher, it will continue for many lifetimes.

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You cannot, just death is not enough to stop that relationship.

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Then there will come a day when you are with them and you are standing above a planet and they will say, you take care of this one.

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I'm trusting you with this one. It's not much, just seven billion people.

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Small planet.

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But you're just a baby Buddha. You take that one. Seriously, I'm not kidding.

You'll stand on the sky with your teacher on the last day, together. So, the sixth benefit. You will never be without teachers in all of your lifetimes.

If you keep a good relationship with your teacher in this lifetime. When you see emptiness directly, you can see these things. You can see what will happen to you after you die.

And you can see that you will have teachers in your future. You can see it directly. So work hard to see emptiness.

You are guaranteeing yourself teachers in your future lives. That's a big deal. That's the most important thing you can have.

And it's cool, like, the minute you are born, you have teachers already taking care of you. We call, let's call, deng, say deng. Not like Deng Xiaoping, okay?

Deng means, in Tibetan language, deng means guarantee, guarantee.

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If you serve your teacher sweetly in this life, happy, then you have deng about the future.

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After you die, there will be teachers around you all the time.

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And that's a ...

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I can't tell you how important that is. That's everything. If you have a teacher, that's everything.

Okay, then of course he has to have a quotation, right? Lung Rik, right? So there was a lama named Potowa.

We heard from him once before. He's a Kadampa lama from the early times of Buddhism in Tibet, Kadampa. We have fifteen more minutes, so just be patient with your knees, okay?

He wrote a book called BYOD BUM RUM PO BYOD BUM RUM PO Say BYOD BUM. BYOD BUM BYOD BUM I don't know why I like this word, it's like BUM BUM BUM BUM I don't know why I like this book.

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This word is BUM BUM BUM.

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BYOD BUM means like ancient record or ancient book, annals. This book is called the Blue Annals.

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What's an annal?

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Annal means ancient records. Then he said, DE BA'I CHUN DEL MA RTAG MANG MIN DE BA'I means therefore. CHUN DEL is a beautiful word, okay?

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You should learn it. Say CHUN DEL. CHUN DEL CHOS means what?

Dharma.

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In this case the teachings, okay?

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Teachings of Dharma.

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DEL means what, DEL? Huh? Connection.

Great.

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Connection.

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So CHUN DEL means Dharma connection. Then this is a special idea in Buddhism. Like if you live at Serra Monastery.

But there's a great Lama at Ganden Monastery. Like this happened to me. There was an extraordinary Lama at Ganden named Lati Rinpoche.

Lati Rinpoche. He passed away. He's passed away already.

But he's a great, great teacher. And I really want to learn something from him. But I have fantastic teachers already.

Then every winter we have to go to the other monasteries for inter-monastery debate. Winter debating. It's like Olympics.

They choose 50 monks from each monastery.

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And you go to fight with the other teams.

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Sometimes whole night.

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They call it SEMS PAS DANG CHOS. So I went three or four times.

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So I was at Ganden. And I saw Lati Rinpoche. And I said, I don't have time to study with him.

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Let me make a chundra.

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Then chundra means let me make future life Dharma connection with this Lama. So I said, okay, let me make some good pancakes for him or something. Then you run there and you make some, you offer the pancake.

Then it means in the future life may I be your student. That's called chundra. You make a chundra.

Make a Dharma connection. There's some stories one Lama tried to interest this person about Dharma but they didn't get interested. Like logic or something like that.

So the teacher tried to interest the student about logic. Then they didn't get interested. Then the Lama will throw a cup at them.

Like hit them with the cup. Then at that moment there's a very strong emotion. The student is like, what are you doing?

What are you doing?

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That strong emotion creates a chundra.

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And then in ten lifetimes they can teach logic to this person. So sometimes that Lama will do some strange thing.

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To make a deep impression on that person's mind.

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It will ripen after five lifetimes or something. Okay, that's why I do strange things. Okay, it's not me.

Okay, just kidding. So he says chundrel matak. Chundrel matak means make a dharma connection without thinking very much.

This dak means thinking carefully. And the meaning is don't take a teacher without checking them out very, very carefully. Somebody told me, oh Geshe-la, I got my refuge vows.

And I got my new Sanskrit name or Tibetan name. I got it yesterday.

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This is a true story. I said, how did you do it?

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I was in the airport in Bangkok.

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I saw some Lamas walking through the airport.

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I said, can I have a Tibetan name and can you give me refuge?

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To me it's like, I have to catch a flight. Oh please, please.

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Okay, your name is Dorje. Then the Lama caught the airplane. That's chundrel matak.

That's chundrel matak. That's to make a connection with a Lama without investigating them. So dak means before you ask a person to be your teacher, you should check them out.

You should be like private investigator. Like detective. Newspaper reporter.

Dig into this person's life. Check out internet. Check out their students.

Who are their students?

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Check out their books.

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What are they talking about?

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Check their YouTube videos.

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Everything. Try to find out everything about them. We call it read through the information.

Like go through the information. Sift the information.

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Check all the information.

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And then make your decision.

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Go see them in person.

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What are they talking about? Is there any scandal? Is there any problems?

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Do they know what they're talking about?

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Then check them out.

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Yourself.

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Carefully. Then take them as a teacher.

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Because after you take them as a teacher, you cannot break that relationship.

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Terrible. It's the worst karma you can do. There's no karma worse than that.

So, take your time. You can go to their classes, but in your mind, don't say, this is my teacher. There's a tradition in India to wait twelve years.

Before, in your heart, you take this person as your teacher.

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So, be careful. Go slow.

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CHUN BDE'O MA BTAG means, MANG MEN means, don't do it. Don't do many things like that. MANG PO MEN means, don't do many things like that.

Don't make connections with teachers in your heart without checking them out. BTAG NAS GSUNGS LA LAM MAR But once you check them out, GSUNGS means, take them as your lama. And GUS BYA means, then, after that, you have to respect them forever.

It's worse than getting married. You cannot divorce a lama. So, be careful.

Take a long time. You can go to their classes.

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You can listen.

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But in your mind you say, I'm just checking them out. My own teacher, my Tibetan teacher, I think I waited about eight years.

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I didn't ask him to be my teacher for eight years.

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I lived with him for eight years. Then I remember one day we were sitting outside on the porch, which he made me build. I was sitting on the porch which he made me build.

He was sitting on the other porch which he made me build.

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That was the concrete one, because we needed some place to do the fire offerings.

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That one ripped my hands up, bleeding. All my hands were bleeding for a couple of days. Then I said, would you be my teacher?

After eight years, I lived with him. He's like, I thought I was your teacher. Then I said, no, but will you really be my teacher?

He said, yeah, I will really be your teacher.

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So be careful. Go slow.

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If you do it that way, check them out carefully.

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Go to many teachings.

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Watch how they behave outside of the class. Then say, okay, you passed my ... There's a joke.

There was a teacher in Mongolia. His student came and said, I checked you out for 12 years.

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Now I'm happy to tell you you passed the test.

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Now you can be my lama. Then his lama went like this. Okay, but first I check you out for 12 years, okay?

Okay, so, but if you do the proper way, check out the teacher for a long time. Then make a connection.

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Get married. Then, if you respect them, keep that relationship sweetly.

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MAR ONG LA MED MI PHUNG means in the future you will never be without a teacher. You will always have a teacher. Even after you die you will have hundreds of teachers.

Then the next word is very important. You ready Adam?

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CHOS NI CHOS NI We have a friend named CHOS NI, right?

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We know a nun. My lama gave her the name CHOS NI. CHOS NI means emptiness.

But it's a special kind of emptiness. In Sanskrit, It means it's the nature of things. What's the nature of things?

If you have a sweet relationship with your teacher, it's automatic you will have teachers forever. That's Dharmata. That's the way it is.

It just means that's the way it is. In Tibetan, CHOS NI CHOS NI In Tibetan, CHOS NI I guess you can say in English that's the way it is. And that means GONG ZHING.

It's a name for GONG ZHING, emptiness. That's the way it is.

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That's the way it is.

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Oh, my computer just jumped. Yeah, one more line and we're finished, okay? Why?

LAS RNAMS CHOS MI SA LAS RNAMS CHOS MI SA Say LAS RNAMS CHOS MI SA CHOS MI SA This is one of the four laws of karma. Those people who came to DCI courses in Shanghai or Guangzhou or Beijing, they know these four laws. Wow, everybody's nervous.

Me too, but I can tell.

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Number one.

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LAS NGES PA If you plant a shikwa, you will get a shikwa.

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If you plant a watermelon, you're going to get a watermelon.

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If you do something nice to somebody, something nice will happen to you. It's impossible for something else to happen. Second one, LAS PHAL CHE BA LAS PHAL CHE BA It always increases.

Exponentially. Like this. Doubles every day.

Karma doubles every day. Then what? LAS CHOS PA CHOS MI SA BA LAS CHOS PA CHOS MI SA BA Sometimes I switch the last two, okay?

LAS CHOS PA CHOS MI SA BA means, this is this one, okay? LAS CHOS PA CHOS MI SA BA means if you do something, something will come to you. It's impossible that nothing will happen.

If you help somebody, it's impossible that nothing will happen.

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If you hurt somebody, it's impossible that nothing will happen.

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Karma never goes away. Karma, CHOS MI SA BA means, just goes away. No such thing.

That's the one he's talking about here.

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If you have a sweet relationship with a good teacher, and you take out all that garbage and you clean up all that poop, something's going to happen. It's impossible that nothing will happen. Then you'll have more teachers.

It's a CHOS NI, that's the way it is.

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That's the way the world works. CHOS NI, Dharma talk.

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Okay.

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What's the last one, by the way?

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Just, I know we don't need it, but...

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Say LAS MA CHOS PA DANG MA CHOS PA LAS MA CHOS PA DANG MA CHOS PA If you don't do anything, don't expect anything.

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Okay?

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If you don't do any karma, don't complain that nothing's happening. People always coming to me, Geshe Michael, you told me if I go to a nursing home and help that lonely person, I can find my husband.

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And a lot of people come to me and say, Geshe Michael, you told me that if I go to a nursing home and help a lonely person, I could have a partner.

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And I say, I never said that.

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I didn't say find your husband, I said, great, plant your husband.

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Okay, okay, I understand, I understand. But still, I went to the nursing home, I couldn't plant my husband.

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Then what's my next question? Yeah, did you do coffee meditation?

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We were in Shanghai, I think. Then we are talking about coffee meditation is the water on the karmic seed. You can go to the nursing home for a thousand years.

Probably after that, you have to stay in the nursing home. But nothing's going to happen if you don't put water on the seed.

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Then that's coffee meditation.

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Before you go to sleep, think about the good thing which you did.

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In this system, you are required to be happy.

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I'm sorry. Okay.

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In this system, you are required to think about the good things you are doing as you go to sleep. And that's called coffee meditation. So we had a big breakthrough in Shanghai.

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Somebody said, Geshe-la, I have a new word. You don't have to say coffee meditation.

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Somebody said, Geshe-la, I have a new word so you don't have to say coffee meditation.

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I said, what's the new word?

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If you think about it, in Tantra, LUNG SEMS SBYUG PA GCIG PA LUNG SEMS SBYUG PA GCIG PA the mind and the prana travel together.

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The thoughts and the prana travel together. Chi, chi and the mind always travel together.

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The energy and the prana always travel together. The energy and the thought always travel together. Then when you think about the good thing which you did in the nursing home, the thought is going to that seed.

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So the prana is also going on top of that seed. And it's like heating up the seed. The prana is heating up the karmic seed.

It's like a mama chicken sitting on the egg.

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Then I'm like, oh, that's fantastic.

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Mama prana chicken sitting on the karmic seed. Shanghai people, sometimes they make very brilliant things. You have to put the mama chicken on the egg.

I love it. Every night. What's that?

Yeah.

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Yeah, don't complain.

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Don't come to me and complain, I did what you said, but I didn't work.

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You didn't do what I said.

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You did half.

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You planted the seed, but the mama chicken didn't sit on it.

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Okay. Who do I have here? Jigme, you want to do?

Yeah. Yeah. No.

Thank you, gracias.